THE MONSTERS ARE COMING…. DOCTOR WHO LIVE!
SHOW CONCEPT DEVELOPED WITH STEVEN MOFFAT
BBC Worldwide has announced a series of arena dates for the very first production of Doctor Who Live.
Please note: that Doctor Who Live show is packed with special effects, whiz, bangs and excitement!
Please note: that we would strongly recommend that babies in arms do not attend due to pyrotechnics and unexpected explosions, which can be very frightening for them.
The new stage show, based upon the BBC’s smash-hit, award-winning series Doctor Who, promises to deliver a spectacular audio/visual experience featuring live music, special effects and appearances from the show’s most popular monsters.
Developed in association with Doctor Who’s Executive Producer and show runner, Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Live promises the same excitement, adventure and suspense that viewers have come to expect from the TV programme and will feature specially filmed new video scenes.
Steven Moffat said: "This is everything I ever wanted since I was eleven. A live show, with all the coolest Doctor Who monsters, a proper story, and brand new screen material for Matt Smith's Doctor! I'll be writing scenes for it, and probably attending every single night!"
Opening in wartime London and concluding in an epic onstage battle, audiences should expect the unexpected as the The Doctor’s arch-enemies the Daleks are joined by some of the best-loved and most terrifying monsters from the TV series including the Cybermen, Weeping Angels, Judoon and Oods to name but a few.
With an out-of-this-world set, Doctor Who Live will feature special FX, optical illusions and spectacular pyrotechnics building to an epic finale. Specially edited video clips, drawn from the TV Programme will be shown on a massive screen and accompanied by the music of longtime Doctor Who composer Murray Gold. These iconic scores will be brought to life by musicians live on stage.
Murray Gold said: "The live element always adds something extra, but these will also be brand new arrangements for a new band of very talented musicians. It's very exciting."
Doctor Who Live has been conceived as a fully immersive music and monsters spectacular.
Please note: that actors from the TV series will not be appearing live on stage.
Evening Standard
‘A monster hit’
'Alistair Foster, Evening Standard'
Daily Express
****
'The audience could hardly contain itself'
'just when you thought it could not get anymore exciting a Dalek flew above the heads of the audiences'
Virginia Blackburn, October 2010
Sunday Express
'Absolutely brilliant... as Doctor Who goes live'
'This show is absolutely brilliant'
'Monster after monster invade the audience'
'A monster mash to remember'
David Stephenson, October 2010
The Guardian
'It was the largest selection of Doctor Who monsters ever gathered together in the show's history'
'audacious new production Doctor Who Live'
'...Wowed by the multimedia extravaganza of live music, special effects, drama and dance'
'Doctor Who Live gives children and adults the time of their lives'
Daniel Martin, October 2010
The Times
***
'Simply terrific'
'Great Entertainment'
'The virtual Smith is charismatic as ever'
Dominic Maxwell The Times, October 2010
Daily Telegraph
***
'Who's afraid of the big bad monsters?'
'Run, hide, scream the monsters are coming'
'A touring spectacular'
'Dazzling, deafening and brazenly gratuitous'
'My nine year old son Lucas was transfixed throughout...100 out of 100 was his ecstatic verdict'
Dominic Cavendish Daily Telegraph, October 2010